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It's been over a year and a half since Bob found out that he had
esophageal cancer with metastases to his liver. He was in a drug trial
for ramucirumab given in conjunction with oxaliplatin and fluorouracil
for almost a year and had a very good first response to the treatment.
It became less effective early this year and he was switched to a
Taxol and carboplatin chemotherapy and also had a course of radiation
to help shrink the esophageal tumor.
Early this December,he latest CT scans showed that this second
course of chemo was losing its initial effectiveness and has also been
adversely affecting he blood counts.
The week before Christmas, he started my third course of chemo,
which was also found to be not effective and Bob suffered some small
strokes in February and had a "Gama Knife" treatment to
remove a small tumor in his brain causing some of these issues.
Bob is just 58 years old with one son in college and one still in high school and has recently taken medical leave. Raising a family is expensive without additional medical costs and many, many trips to Mayo in Rochester.
His friends are having a benefit to help him defray some of these costs.
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